As promised, here’s the new version. The changelog has all the details. My major aim with this theme was to smooth out the widget implementation slightly, add a couple of options people had requested, and improve the look and feel of the them.
New Features
We’ve expanded your options again with a new header, the imaginatively-titled Spots. If you go to the Tarski Options page and scroll down to the Miscellaneous Options, you’ll see the option to display your site’s tagline or description below the title.
If you don’t have a site description, don’t worry, there won’t be a huge and annoying gap between header and navigation.
Tweaks
This is mostly pretty dull stuff: some minor adjustments, rewriting a bit of CSS for the widgets plugin and whatnot.
The most obvious thing is probably the reworked Asides; I think they’re a lot more elegant like this, and these are fewer lines breaking up the flow of the page, which is how I originally envisioned things.
I’m going to do a more major rewrite of the code for the next major version, including a standardisation of the code for content areas and columns. This means two things in practice: some of your alternate styles will need rewriting, but it should be much easier to write them in future.
Tarski has a fair bit of legacy code and is much like a city that has had new buildings plonked down on old streets—it’s not broken as such, but future town planning will be a lot easier once we rip out some old foundations.
Keep an eye on the roadmap for the lowdown on the changes as I start to work on them.
Tags: 1.1.3, download, features, release, tagline, tweaks, widgets
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Dennis,
1. You’ll be wanting this plugin which will redirect your feed URL to Feedburner. Much better than changing your feed URLs (especially if you one day move off Feedburner!)
2. Ben’s the CSS guru, but you can probably do that via an alternate style.
3. The Tag page uses the recommended Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin.
Ed,
I’m guessing one of your Widgets interferes with Tarski’s comments code. The only real way to confirm this is to deactivate your widgets one-by-one and see which one is doing it.
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Problem solved…strangely it was the Recent Posts widget.
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For some reason, my comments form & posted comments do not show up in IE ? They work fine in Firefox, but not in IE
Any ideas ?
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it’s fixed…was an issue with the SOCIABLE plugin…all is well
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There is no trackback link in Tarski ? where would I input code, and what code would I input to get a trackback link to appear ?
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The Geek, your question is already answered in this thread.
See the comment of May 28th, 2006 at 4:59 pm.
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the link in that comment is dead…goes to a 404 page….sorry that is why i asked again.
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that didnt work either…i just edited the theme a bit to add a trackback link un the post info…im not sure why it didnt work
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Where were you looking for it? That would cause a trackback URL to appear below the Comment box, as you can see on my personal blog. There’s no reason it shouldn’t work.
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my constants.php is called constants-default.php.. would that make a difference ?
Would I ENTER THE CODE HERE ??
// $searchTopInclude will be added above the search block in the theme’s footer.
$searchTopInclude = -
COMMENTSFORMINCLUDE;
Would I enter the code HERE ??
// $searchTopInclude will be added above the search block in the theme’s footer.
$searchTopInclude = -
Yes, it makes a difference. As the documentation says:
These hooks can be used via a constants.php file placed in your Tarski directory. An example file showing all hooks is available here as well as within your Tarski install as constants-default.php. Simply rename that file to constants.php and start editing.
We provide a
constants-default.phpas an empty, sample file that won’t overwrite your realconstants.phpwhen you upload an upgrade.And yes, that is where you can enter the code.
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renamed the file to constants.php, added the code and voila…it all works…thank you very much :-)
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How can I number the comments listed under a blog entry?
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Helen, you’ll need to look at the WordPress documentation for that. Not really a Tarski question so much as a general theme question.
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I really like this theme, but I don’t see a where it gives the author credit (i.e., bylines). I have a blog that’s written by several authors, so it’s important for readers to know who wrote what. How can I add that? I would think this would be great to have in the options page. Thanks!
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Sorry, I figured it out. I recently imported my posts from MT, and it created my authors as subscribers, not authors. Changing their roles to authors fixes that.
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Thanks ceejayoz. I take your point. Sorry if my question was not Tarski-related enough.
I did notice that how to add numbers to comments is somewhat dependent on the way the theme is set up – for example, if a theme uses the html list function to list comments the answer is different from in a theme like Tarski which uses a php function to call each comment (sorry if that’s the wrong term – php is very new to me).
If anyone’s interested I found the answer to how to number comments in a theme coded like Tarski here.
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Today to my astonishment, when i click my UTW tag, it shows weird error above the theme. Try this:
http://www.g-economy.com/tag/seoand you will get
WordPress database error: [Unknown column 'category_id' in 'where clause']
SELECT DISTINCT * FROM wp_posts INNER JOIN wp_post2tag p2t on wp_posts.ID = p2t.post_id INNER JOIN wp_tags t on p2t.tag_id = t.tag_id WHERE 1=1 AND post_date_gmt
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I don’t see an error on my end, 紫雨.
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I have attached the snapshot to u. It only shows up when one logins
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Helen: thanks for posting that info here, I was actually wondering about how to do that a while ago. It’s one of those things that other blogging packages such as MT do more easily than WP.
The real difference between how a theme like Tarski displays comments and those that use an ordered list (
olelement) to display them is that we simply have a bunch ofdivs wrapping individual comments rather than list items. Using a list will give you the numbers, obviously, but the downside is that you can’t really do much in the way of styling or positioning them. The method you linked to is much more versatile in that respect.Chris was perhaps overly blunt in his response to your initial query, but we spend quite a lot of our time supporting Tarski—we wouldn’t have any left to develop it if we started doing general WordPress support too! :)
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Sorry Helen, I didn’t mean to come off as being blunt!
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I made this comment some days ago, and I have tried to figure out if it’s a problem with the widget itself, without any luck. Does anyone have an idea:
Using the del.icio.us widget, that comes with the widget plugin, I can’t get any links to show up in the sidebar – only the headline with a link to my del.icio.us page. I have set up the widget to show 10 links … -
CaBe – your del.icio.us Widget is generating a link to this script, which isn’t outputting any data. Fix that and it’ll be fine.
From what I can see, it should be sending something like this URL instead.
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Thank you – my fault. I had specified [my del.icio.us login]/[a tag] to make the widget headline link to all my items with that tag. But at the same time I had set the widget to show only the same tag. And that combination generated the empty output. Obvious, perhaps, but not to me ;-)
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I’m getting odd behaviour when I try and edit any widget. When I double click to edit, the screen dims and I can’t make any changes at all. Is this something to do with the theme or what? Don’t see the same beviour on any other theme.
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Tarski doesn’t add anything to the Widget configuration page, to my knowledge, unless Tarski’s script.aculo.us install is interfering with the Widget one. I’ve got both working just fine, as do a bunch of others, so I don’t know if it can be a Tarski issue…
If you’re on Firefox, open your JavaScript console (Ctrl+Shift+J, maybe?) and see if there are any errors being generated by the Widgets page.
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http://www.g-economy.com/post/94#comment-109
Could u plz show a way to count comments? I have tried the steps of Helen but it counts wrongly.
I wana start counting from real comment regardless of TB and PB.
Besides, how can i shift the TB&PB below real comments?
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Try asking on the WP forums thread that Helen linked to.
If you want to shift trackbacks and pingbacks below actual comments, you’ll have to go into
comments.phpand move the track/pingback code below the comment code. You may also have to change some other stuff; not completely sure. -
I have a feature request – an option (assuming you don’t want this all the time) to list the author when rendering asides. I can figure out how to add it to loop.php (just cut and paste the $count_users line from the normal post listing), but then I have to reproduce that every time you upgrade Tarski. Not a big deal, but it would be nice. Thanks!
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Sounds like a good idea, Philip.
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I’m trying to implement Gallery 2 image block code in the sidebar via the constants.php, but can’t seem to get it to execute the PHP code:
Is there a way to do this? I want to avoid hacking the sidebar file and use constants.php if at all possible.
Thanks in advance!
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Looks like your code got munched.
Can you use http://rafb.net/paste/ to paste it, please?
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Oops – is this better?
<?php @readfile(‘http://www.twoheartsranch.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=imageblock.External&g2_blocks=randomImage’; ?>
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You’ll want to use a technique like this one. Put your code where
get_flickrRSS();is and it should work. -
I’ll try the referenced technique right away. By the way, your documentation is pretty good and I recall having read about your workaround earlier, but had a brain fade. Sorry for the bother!
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The obj_start() technique worked perfectly! Lots of potential with that, just wish I had the time I want to explore this more…
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I love your theme! For some reason though it is showing up all wonky in IE (I don’t *use* IE but some people do…) it’s fine in Firefox and Opera, but in IE the sidebar shows up below all the posts instead of on the side. How can I fix this?
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Pretty sure it’s all those images, they’re wider than the 500px width of the main content column.
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that was it – doh!! stupid. sorry to bother you!
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